Schumer Future on the Supreme Court confirming the ban on TN on trans treatments for minors

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., criticized the decision of the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday to maintain the prohibition of Tennessee on transgender “treatments” for minors.

“This Supreme Court seems to have forgotten that one of their jobs is to protect individual rights and protect individuals from discrimination. It is a horrible decision,” Schumer told journalists on Capitol Hill.

Schumer accused the Republicans of having tried to infringe the rights of transgender young people.

Scotus rules on the prohibition of the State on gender transition “treatments” for minors in the historic case

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., talks to journalists after Party meetings behind closed doors at the Capitole in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (APO photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

“On the ground, we had a bill, that the Republicans wanted to remove these rights,” said Schumer. “And we have, I believe, each democrat voting against this. So he failed because he needed 60 votes. So we are going to explore each solution.”

Schumer also condemned the 6-3 online court decision.

“The cruel Crusade of Republicans against Trans children is an attempt to divert attention from the tearing of health care far from millions of Americans,” said Schumer. “We will continue to fight, and we will continue to walk.”

The Republican Association of General Prosecutors (RAGA) said that the majority of the majority “helps to restore mental health for millions of families across America”.

“The boys are boys and girls are girls,” said Raga president and executive director Adam Piper in a statement at Fox News Digital. “While the Republican Crusade AGS against risky and irreversible gender transition procedures for minors, demons of their extreme donors and sag towards Gomorrrah. We must continue to protect our girls against men trying to invade their unique spaces, confidentiality and sports competitions.”

The attorney general of Tennessee Jonathan Skrmetti – whose office managed the defense in the case – praised the decision, claiming that “the common sense of the voters of Tennessee prevailed over judicial activism”.

“The rapid and unexplained increase in the number of children looking for these interventions that change their life, despite the lack of supporting evidence, calls for a meticulous examination of our elected leaders,” he said in a press release. “This victory transcends politics. These are real children of Tennessee confronted with real difficulties. The families of our State and our nation deserve solutions based on science, not on ideology. Today’s historical decision recognizes that the Constitution allows us to achieve the highest call for society – protect our children.”

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 17, 2024. (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

The governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, congratulated Skrmetti for winning the “historic” victory of the Supreme Court, adding that “the protection of children is a fundamental responsibility that we take seriously”.

“I was proud to sign this bipartite legislation which legally safeguards young people from irreversible medical decisions and which modify life,” Lee said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Voters, through their elected officials, should have the power to decide what they believe in serious questions like this.”

The Supreme Court seems divided on state prohibitions on gender transition “treatments” for minors

The case was focused on the law of the state of Tennessee SB1, which restricts sexual transition treatments for minors for the treatment of gender dysphoria.

The conclusions of the Legislative Assembly of Tennessee, as detailed in the law, have included that such treatments “can lead to the minor to become irreversibly sterile, have an increased risk of illness and disease, or suffering from unfavorable and sometimes fatal psychological consequences”. The state body controlled by the Republican also noted that minors “do not have maturity to understand and fully assess” these consequences and can later regret to undergo treatments and want to detract.

Writing for the conservative majority, judge John Roberts noted that the Tennessee affair “includes the weight of ferocious scientific and political debates on the security, efficiency and convenience of medical treatments in an evolving field”.

“The voices of these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are deep,” he wrote. “The equal protection clause does not solve these disagreements. It also does not allow us to decide as we see the best.

Conservative judges have judged that SB1 is not subject to a meticulous examination under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. They declared that the law integrates two classifications – on the basis of age and the basis of medical use.

Protesters for and against the transgender treatment of minors demonstrated outside the Supreme Court on December 4, 2024 in Washington, DC (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana, file)

“Health care providers can administer certain medical treatments to people aged 18 and over, but not miners,” Roberts wrote. “Health care providers can administer puberty blockers or minors to treat certain conditions, but not to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorders or incongruence between sexes. The classifications that run on age or medical use are subject to a rational basic journal.”

The decision indicates that none of these classifications turn on sex. SB1 “rather prohibits health care providers from administering puberty blockers or minors to minors for certain medical uses, regardless of the gender of a minor”.

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The three liberal judges dissident, judge Sonia Sotomayor arguing that the majority “abandons transgender children and their families with political whims”.